NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS Girls CAN SMASH STEREOTYPES DEFY EXPECTATIONS AND MAKE HISTORY Marissa Sebastian Tora Shae Pruden Paige Towler NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON C D
CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE LEADERSHIP 6 Girls Can Lead 8 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 10 Cleopatra 12 Mary Barra 14 Indra Nooyi 15 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro 16 Gallant Gals 18 Nancy Pelosi 20 Christiane Amanpour 21 Elizabeth I 22 Wu Zetian 24 Julia Aurelia Zenobia 25 Yaa Asantewaa 26 Melinda Gates 28 Ellen Pao 29 Benazir Bhutto 30 Kristine Tompkins 32 SERENA WILLIAMS CHAPTER TWO SPORTS ADVENTURE 34 JOAN OF ARC Girls Can Play Sports 36 Serena Williams 38 Katherine Sui Fun Cheung 40 Bessie Coleman 41 Marina Elliott 42 Broader Beauty 44 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 46 Tegla Loroupe 48 Caster Semenya 49 Ridiculous Myths Laws 50 Junko Tabei 52 Alex Morgan 54 Sylvia Earle 55 Billie Jean King 56 Simone Biles 58 Angela Mao 59
CHAPTER THREE LITERATURE THE ARTS 60 Girls Can Be Artists 62 Frida Kahlo 64 Enheduanna 66 Edmonia Lewis 67 Well-Written Women 68 Phillis Wheatley 70 Oprah Winfrey 72 Girls Who Geek Out 74 Erika Larsen 76 Zaha Hadid 77 Maria Tallchief 78 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 80 Roxane Gay 81 Guan Daosheng 82 Nina Simone 84 Ellen DeGeneres 85 CHAPTER FOUR SCIENCE MATH 86 Girls Can Do Math 88 Madam C J Walker 90 Valentina Tereshkova 92 Hypatia 93 Katherine Johnson 94 Inventions by Women 96 Fe Villanueva del Mundo 98 Gitanjali Rao 100 Jennifer Doudna 102 Asha de Vos 103 Sara Josephine Baker 104 Isabella Aiona Abbott 106 Kakani Katija 107 Marie Curie 108 SUSAN B ANTHONY FRIDA KAHLO CHAPTER FIVE CHANGING THE WORLD 110 Girls Can Change the World 112 Malala Yousafzai 114 Susan B Anthony 116 Sojourner Truth 118 Amani Ballour 120 Tarana Burke 121 Manuela Sáenz y Aizpuru 122 Clean Up the Planet 124 Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera 126 Alicia Garza 128 Tara Houska 129 The Trung Sisters 130 Adjany Costa 132 Dominique Gonçalves 133 Boys Can Too 134 Questions for Discussion 136 Index 138 Credits 142 VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
